Learn about Matilda Joslyn Gage, history

by jmaloni

Wed, Nov 2nd 2011 09:55 pm

The North Tonawanda History Museum and the Niagara
Frontier Chapter of New York State Women are joining forces to present a
program by Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner, an authority on Matilda Joslyn Gage. The
program begins at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5, at the museum, 54 Webster St., North
Tonawanda.

The program is funded by the New York Council for the
Humanities, Speakers in the Humanities Program, and is free and open to the
public.

Although she was considered equally as important as Elizabeth
Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony (they were called the "triumvirate of the
women's rights movement"), Matilda Joslyn Gage (1828-1898) has been all but
written out of history.

Gage offered her Fayetteville, N.Y., home as a station on
the Underground Railroad, was adopted into the Wolf Clan of the Mohawk Nation,
edited a newspaper, encouraged her son-in-law, L. Frank Baum, to write his "Oz"
stories, and worked for the separation of church and state.

Wagner is the founder and executive director of the Matilda Joslyn Gage
Foundation, which operates out of Gage's home.